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    Default Grandma catches 380 lber

    70 Year Old Grandma Catches Huge Halibut

    The huge halibut weighed 380 pounds and measured 7 feet 4 inches.
    KTLA News
    11:22 AM EDT, June 24, 2010
    LaVerne Glover with 380 pound halibut (Courtesy LaVerne Glover)


    <H3> MOORPARK -- It was a fishing trip a 70 year old grandmother of nine will never forget.

    LaVerne Glover of Moorpark reeled in a 380 pound halibut last week on the final day of her fishing trip to Sitka, Alaska with her husband, Bob.

    The huge halibut measured 7-feet-4-inches, dwarfing LaVerne's 5-foot-3 1/4-inch frame.

    LaVerne, a retired receptionist for a beauty salon, used chunk bait with a 5-foot-6-inch Seeker rod, an Avet 4/0 two-speed reel, 16/0 circle hook and 80-pound Spectra line.

    She says she knew right away that she had hooked a big fish. Once she saw the fish come to the top, everyone on the boat thought it was a monster.

    "I was so shocked and I was trying to stay composed, you know, not just scream," she told KTLA.

    LaVerne says she "had leverage" and used two hands and "really raise it up."

    It took her 45 minutes and help from everyone on board to bring the big fish onto the boat.

    The gigantic catch didn't make it into the record books, however. The scales were closed at the Kingfisher lodge the day LaVerne caught it.

    Fishing has always been a part of the Glovers life together. The couple met in Westlake Village and their first date was a twilight fishing trip in Oxnard.

    LaVerne fished as a child growing up in Santa Monica, but she gave it up for nearly 20 years until meeting Bob.

    http://www.fox8.com/news/offbeat/ktl...Top+Stories%29
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    Way to go Grandma damn fine fish now thats one thing I still want to go fishing for never done that I would rather do halibut fishing than Marlin fishing just something that intrigues me about it.

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    She has an incredible catch. Nice.

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    she went fishing










    just for the












    halibut

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonthepain View Post

    halibut
    hal if I know why!

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